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San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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This blog post is highly misleading and inaccurate. Access to the video is very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations. And the audio recording capacity isn’t live because the City has no use for it.

The SD Reader isn’t a very trustworthy source. Here’s the U-T’s extensive piece on the topic:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio...

Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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post #2

How does anyone who lives in San Diego get to see the live camera and data feeds? Surely a city in the US didn't create a public surveillance network that takes the information and makes it private.

Surely you didn't think they'd make it open and available to the public did you?

Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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post #18

I live in San Diego and frankly, I hate the new lights because they simply aren't as bright and there are fewer of them. I can't run outside after work during the winter because the streets are dark now.

With modern LED the small battery powered headlamp I have on a headband is like a headlight of the cars of the past :)

Headlamps can be dangerous because the shadows are in the same plane as your vision. I gave up using them for hiking because they didn't help me see drop-offs. You're better off with a light in your hand or on your waist.

Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Improvements to what? Serious question.

Traffic congestion by studying the build-up of traffic at certain lights

I call bullshit. Pneumatic road tubes have been around for a while to gather data about traffic flows.

Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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Wow, GE doesn't even bother with euphemism:

> In short, CityIQ transforms a city's lighting infrastructure into an all-knowing, data intelligence network. -- https://www.currentbyge.com/cities

"Hey, cities, want to install our Panopticon?"

At least BriefCam took the time to encode their site in PR-speak:

> BriefCam is the industry’s leading provider of Video Synopsis® solutions for rapid video review and search, real-time alerting and quantitative video insights. -- https://www.briefcam.com/company/about/

Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Traffic congestion by studying the build-up of traffic at certain lights

I call bullshit. Pneumatic road tubes have been around for a while to gather data about traffic flows.

Cameras can be at every intersection all the time and can adapt in real-time to emerging traffic patterns (ie a ballgame ending and a stadium of people hitting the road at once) as well as traffic changes over time from environmental changes

Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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post #21

This blog post is highly misleading and inaccurate. Access to the video is very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations. And the audio recording capacity isn’t live because the City has no use for it. The SD Reader isn’t a very trustworthy source. Here’s the U-T’s extensive piece on the topic: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio...

Are there video camera and microphones installed city-wide on streetlights or not?

Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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post #21

This blog post is highly misleading and inaccurate. Access to the video is very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations. And the audio recording capacity isn’t live because the City has no use for it. The SD Reader isn’t a very trustworthy source. Here’s the U-T’s extensive piece on the topic: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio...

"Access to the video is very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations."

That's what they all say. It's an empty platitude at best.

"the audio recording capability isn't live"

Yet. It is still present, though, and could become live should San Diego decide it to be useful.

Re: San Diego Implemented City-Wide Streetlight Surveillance

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With modern LED the small battery powered headlamp I have on a headband is like a headlight of the cars of the past :)

Headlamps can be dangerous because the shadows are in the same plane as your vision. I gave up using them for hiking because they didn't help me see drop-offs. You're better off with a light in your hand or on your waist.

After spending hundreds of hours hiking by headlamp, both on- and off-trail, I disagree. Sometimes it helps to hold your headlamp in your hand if you're running, but at a normal walking pace, it's not a big deal.
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